Extension of MODIS Forest and Vegetation Cover Fraction Dataset

15 January 2021, by Stefan Kern

We extended the TERRA-MODIS Forest and Vegetation Cover Fraction collection 6 data set by one year. The data are hence now available at annual temporal resolution for the period 2000-2019. Like for MODIS LAI/FAPAR you can choose between two flavours: tiled data with 250 m x 250 m grid resolution on the MODIS sinusoidal grid or global data with 0.5° x 0.5° grid resolution on a global climate modeling grid:

MODIS Percentage Forest Cover Fraction

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